Plum is fine too but starts to push it. If I need one, just the most neutral, light / fair beige, and the rest is to be simply ignored. =) I know it isnt just me, either. is too cool. ) I hate not knowing my under tone. I think this is a little darker than Gobi, so if you get a tan try it out. For foundations you should check out Koh Gen Do in shade 213 (I wear 123 so that could be good for summer maybe?) My ancestry is a bit more bland and less Eastern European so I am kinda lost there. Ive read that olive tones are often mistaken for a warm tone when really, theyre a cool tone. I dont know, but thank you for the very helpful tips! In my case, these tricks always raise more questions than they provide answers: I have brown hair and hazel eyes, which are generally marks of a warm colouring. Never pinky- pink or peachy-peach! I have medium/dark brown hair that can look mousy sometimes, but up close has gold and red in it. Omg yes! Im flattered, but dont personally see it. This transfer-resistant eyeshadow comes in a range of highly pigmented shades. Freckles sometimes. I am olive skinned and pale because I choose not to tan, but I can tan easily. I too have had freckles ever since I was 9 or 10 :c It is so hard for me to achieve full coverage in any foundation. Glowing skin, minimal makeup, and defined lashes compose Jessica's signature look. Silver and rose gold. I just figured out my undertone is actually cool green. Wow everything makes sense now! I have Ash blonde hair. Also like Burts bees, Sedona Sands, lip crayon for a natural look (kind of waxy though). I tried wearing lime green and looked jaundiced, which is odd because I can basically wear any shade of yellow, but a yellowish green? I did find out that a very pale muted lilac colour looks goos on me ( its a dress im talking about). Weirdly Urban Decay 714 works on me, even though it is a warmer red. My heritage is Native American, French and Finish. Eva Longoria / Eva Mendes. but eeeverything is somehow still too yellow compared to my grayish greenish neck. Wow! Olive skin is so beautiful but doesnt fit well into traditional seasonal colour analysis so we end up feeling weird and left out! Makeup artists always have me looking too peach or orange. Greys are coming in bright silver. I had no idea green undertones were a thing, but after years of poorly matched foundation, it all makes sense. I can easily get away with warm foundations when I have my tan, but every winter I am ghostly pale. I am Armenian/European heritage so pale olive skin is inevitable here. I am like you, its the pastels, beige and Greys that make me look unwell. I am very, very pale olive. I also have found Japanese makeup brands have better matches than western brands. But also chartreuse and pale turquoise. Also, if youve read anything about colour seasons there are a zillion spectrums to take into account (for example whether you suit clear, bright colours more or muted colours, whether your overall image is dark or light, and so on). Hello, Oh wow! Its so interesting to read through these comments! Gradually I also figured out it may be due to a good chunk of my ancestry being from Eastern Europe. Like, in pure light, I look kinda gold (but the greener kind). Its too dark for me, but it has that slightly green, olive undertone that I need. I know they also make buff in a mousse formula, it might last longer? Im a super pale, cool olive I guess. Like 100% clearly cool and so much more flattering. My wrists are blue like those with pink undertones and my skin is just as pale as theirs if not paler in some cases. I dont really fit the bill for olive-toned either though so who knows haha. Ive tried NYX Bare With me in Vanilla Nude, and it gives me a slightly too yellow cast, and oxidizes a touch dark, NARS Gobi makes me look kind of bright cool yellow, Koh Gen Doh is too dark. Reading your article and seeing a gorgeous pale, olive-skin lady like you makes me feel a lot more at peace with myself. I already mute it down with an ashy color but even an ashy color hairdye always has a small amount of red and my hair seems to pick up even the smallest amount of it. Recently, Ive been struggling to find a contour shade that really is perfect. I also really like Burts Bees tinted balm in Rose and Red Dahlia. Which means I have my mothers olive tones, but my fathers ash brown hair and green eyes. This spring I found EX1, a new brand that caters to olive skin ONLY. Online tests always say that i have a cool undertone, but i always look washed out or sick when wearing the colors that are supposed to be good for people with cool undertones. I look good in earth color and some very clear and cold colors. Its free, give it a go! I got a sample of Touch In Sol Advanced Real Moisture foundation (shade natural beige) in an Ipsy bag. I am in my late 30s and tan rather than burn. I am ghostly white in winter, but tan pretty easily and dont burn easily, which Im always old is odd for someone pale as me. Eyes: Light brown, blue, or gray. I can wear both gold and silver well. I am Native American/Irish/Scottish/welsh. For me, wearing lipstick, blush, or eye shadow just looks off. I first thought I was a winter but that didnt feel quite right, the colors were too intense. Oh, did I mention yellow clothing looks absolutely horrible on me? Black. So if you are like me just N will suit you best maybe than WO. Im going to do a bit more research on this topic! I CAN state that dark, rich brown looks better on me than black (very good in fact), and even a dark Brown lipstick is excellent. You might be able to get a color that is better for your pale olive skin tone. Youre my tribe! It may help to think of your skin as fabric. I have a cool toned light medium olive skin tone which I think is so opposite because cool tones are supposed to have pink undertones in the skin, but i have the green of the olive undertone .. which you would think would cancel each other out. :) i am so happy to finally see pictures of someone like me. My veins are mostly green but a few look slightly purple or blue in the wrist. People always ask me, Oh my God, are you sick, when I dont wear makeup. Thanks! -Dr Jart Black Label BB Cream comes out of the bottle almost grey, but is the very first foundation that ever actually matched me Lots of great recommendations on here for me to try now :D. I dont wear foundation or powder anymore, but I still at the age of 35 cant find the right colour of clothing to make me look healthy. I have the foundation in 02. There is no difference between neck and face any more! I use Bobbi Brown in Warm Ivory though. And under my eyes, but you cant expect me to not be wearing concealer there ;). Its not just an Eastern European skin type either: Im half British and half Indian. Pale skin, brown hair, hazel eyes. My veins are not clearly blue or green. light grey Thankful to have found this thread! Even ones that suit my coloring just make me took too made-up which is not really appropriate for my conservative work environment (even on Zoom all day). Woah! Im pretty content with my make up collection at this point (finally) I will leave a full complication breakdown below. And I can wear light golds but anything too orangey-bronze and I look ridiculous (unless Im tan). But lo and behold, it turns out olive is not simply a word used for medium skin tones, but a fourth type of undertone. Best wishes to you you and your mischief! Im latin american, also with some eastern europe background interesting how many of us have the same rare tone and common background. However, I can pull off both because I believe Im neutral but I dont like too much of either. (p.s. Based on my experience, I can say the next if you pick from darker colors they should be a bit warm like chocolate or chestnut/ or some caramel highlights are great. Thats me! I think I get my olive skin from my Iberian side, seems common in Mediterranean areas. If the gold item looks better on you, youre warm toned. lol. Plum, forest green, navy, etc. I was light blonde as a child with dark hazel eyes. Which is strange. I ve been reading your blog, and reasearching my skin undertone for ages. . So Im even paler than you, so much so that sometimes in pictures I look like a ghost. If you will open a Paint window, and go to color mixer, choose the yellow. I know it comes from my heritage, but doesnt help me at all. Im 100% Slavic/Eastern European, but burn easily and cant tan to save my life and my hair sounds kind of similar its a strawberry blonde but somewhere between gold and ashy? I'm SUPER pale since I wear sunscreen every day, but I have olive undertones, medium brown hair, and dark brown eyes. My younger sister is the same color. Always failed, because I never seemed to fit any category really, just mix of them.. Haha. These are the best, particularly the Koh gen Do! Im a whole lot of shades lighter, but the undertone is definitely there. as a child, spending most of my summers outside and swimming at our local pool, I could get VERY dark and have been mistaken for Latina (most often Puerto Rican, but occasionally a country of darker average skin complexion) countless times, though only in late August/September and only when I was still in school and thus spent my summers outdoors more than I do now. Reading some of the other peoples suggestions and comments on here is a huge help and gives me confidence that Ill find it :))). I just went looking for green concealer thinking that could be my solution and then I came across this thread. There is a yellow undertone with definite pinks coming through. I like shade 1.05 (lightest olive shade) in the smashbox foundations. A stark contrasting hair color on olive skin tone can look really gorgeous, you just have to know how to work it. Youre the best! I never considered that I am actually cool toned. Youve just described me except the eyes are very pale grey blue. I learnt to accept it in the early 2000s, when tan was so praised. Its not 100%, but its pretty close. Still flummoxed about what color clothes to wear, but at least I dont look like Im wearing a pink mask anymore! But:) oh my gosh, I just may be onto a winner with the dark bitter chocolate (Hickory Brown) cardiganAND the very dark red (with blue undertones) cardigan! Why this works: Chopra's glossy black mane actually has touches of brown and red, which pick up the warm . In terms of makeup that actually works over time, Ive discovered that my acceptable eye-shadow palette is super limited to just (darker than tan) brown eye-shadow tones or dull bronze/gold or a just white-ish highlighter accent. my clothes vary from a washed out black (not grey! And that experience with foundations happened to me too, so I quit trying to find make up for me. Gold. Xxx. I dont know.) We have many people of Romany descent who were born in Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in our family tree. the 2n is slightly warmer unfortunately, but fits better to my natural skintone. Im so used to my face being a different shade to my body (the closest Ive had to matching undertones is neutral foundations) that the first time I used it I was like like holy shit I look green and put it away for a month or so. With lipstick, anything pink (cool) or peach (warm) or light (or even medium shades) at all just washes me out completely and I look like an alien. silver jewellery close to my face looks awful (cool). Out of any color (not just greens) Ive worn, army green has gotten me the most compliments. Im so glad to have come across this and see so many others suggestions! My eyes are green-blue with a tiny bit of yellow in the center. I am Brazilian but I have Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Italian roots. Rose gold is the only metal I feel I can really pull off. Grey and white look best on me as does silver or white gold which is my favorite. My eyes are hazel (brown/green). And since i am brazilian i have very mixed roots. curl to it, is extremely fine in texture but I have a lot of it. I cant wait to go check out some of the ones listed here!! Myself, my father and mother were all born in London. I have green, blue & purple veins in my inner wrists, so was always confused as well. Ive bounced between fair and light tarte shades but they never felt *quite* right. As a teen in the 80s I had my colors done and I was a winter so I carried that little swatch sample around forever. Foundation I go for ivory neutral in most brands,but I have to use strategic concealers and highlighters because I have always had dark circles and uneven spots. Ive used makeup with warm undertones because they look better on me than cool undertones (that make my face awkwardly pink), but the warm ones are usually too yellow or orange based or too dark. through my skin with ease. Hi Diana, your background is EXACTLY my background, and our skins sounds the same! Though science holds dark-haired blue-eyed girls as a rare act of nature, celebs with porcelain skin like Megan Fox and Eva Green prove that stunning contrasts wow no matter what Mother Nature thinks.. I have yet to find one foundation that I dont have to mix or play around with. I too am a light olive (MAC NC20) and like most others here am a mix of Mediterranean/Northern African/Levantine (my fathers side of the family) and Polish/Czech/Lithuanian/Finnish on my moms. But contouring has evaded me because the color is never quite right. You have solved a lifetime of struggles for me! This is so unbelievable helpful! Oh, yes!!! But I have found, I can do darker, almost brownish reds. ), and jeans. Ive heard people call them olive but theyre the exact opposite red/orange undertones. But I think only in Sheer Glow. Some think green. I stopped a girl about a year ago as she had my skin tone and had makeup on (eyes,lipstick) and I said what foundation are you wearing? Foundation is extremely tough. Even if I have the pores, the scars, and the patchy skin I wont be orange anymore. I have Eastern-European descent! After trying a new foundation, it sent me down a rabbit hole where I discovered (after 37 years!) The undertone of your skin is warm, either yellow, golden or olive green. I had always known I was olive, but the warm / cool spectrum seemed almost impossible to determine. I have similar coloring to you. Do you have any recommendations for the powder? Mother of the Groom Hairstyles I had been using fair neutral from tarte but it was never quite right everything is a bit easier now that I finally understand how olive works, Omg! I am a natural ashy blonde with medium grey-blue eyes, but my skin is super yellow-green. Youre spot on, and I am amazed to see an actual solution in print. This help explain why many people of Eastern European descent have an olive skin tone. Would be thrilled if you responded, thanks! But, of course, its all individual. Mixed bag of genetics and I tan freakishly easily. I would love to try an olive foundation and see what it does. I will cherish my bottle and probably buy as many backups as I can find. Under the sun, you go brown rather than red. I tried black hair once and it was way too harsh, making me think I couldnt handle dark brownso wrong. Fawn plowy in Polish, its perfect combination of slightly greenish beige. Id say Im a neutral warm olive I had a hairdresser once remark that I have no pink in my skin. And, thank you to all who posted with specific brands and shadeswill definitely help in finding my perfect shade. My skin is very fair, but my lips are always tanned, so they change colors and mismatch the skin Not starting with eyeshadow because most eyeshadow brands turn into a muddy mess on my oily lids too And having a test about the skin type I appear to have ultra dry skin, except on the eyelids, for whatever the reason so I cant apply my foundation to my eyes to even the skin so it messes everything a little bit more. What an eye opener!!! For the best hair colors to stun with your beautiful olive skin and brown eyes, take a look at the options below!

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